TRAINING PILOTS
AMERICANS TO HELP
PLAN FOR FLYING SCHOOLS
WASHINGTON, May 17
Officials said today that the War De-, partment had approved a plan whereby the United States Army Air Corps schools will train thousands of British pilots.
The plan includes: First, the immediate use of primary and basic training facilities, and private civilian flying schools now training American pilots; secondly, the British will contract with six schools, building new facilities, for which the United States Army Air Corps will supply planes anu equipment, while the British will pay instructors and personnel; thirdly, advanced training at Maxwell, Moffat, and Randolph fields, but not including combat training.
Officials emphasised that British flyers expected from all parts of the Empire will enter the schools as civilians, not as members of the.R.A.F., in order to comply with United States laws.—U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 8
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